Just after Mrs Lovett has offered Sweeney the 'Worst Pies in London' she answers Sweeney's questions about the room upstairs. She tells him that some say it is haunted and that "something happened up there. Something not very nice...".

She tells the story, but the nasty thing that happened occurred at the Judge's house not above her shop. When seeing a live production of Sondheim's masterpiece, the abstract nature of stage doesn't cause the same problem.

Ken Bailey